Keeping Democracy Alive with Burt Cohen

Keeping Democracy Alive with Burt Cohen


Latest Episodes

Parallels: Israel and India; Bibi and Modi
December 05, 2023

Keeping one ethnicity in control: The Israeli state and Modis India. Palestinians and Indias Muslim minority. The chumminess of Bibi and Modi. And in both cases, the oppressors ask: who lit the fire

Israel’s American Objective: Create Fear Among Students
December 01, 2023

No one wants to be labeled anti-Semitic. But theres a massive yet secret Israel-run spy network not only spying on American university protesters but intimidating them, affecting their lives and jo

From 2016: Israel Conflates Religion with Nationalism
November 28, 2023

The unquestioned backing by Jewish Americans for the State of Israel started to fade about ten years ago, well before the current war. This keepingdemocracyalive is from 2016, in which Allan C. Brown

Palestine is Not The Only Middle East Nation Denied
November 22, 2023

Their language is illegal where they live. They can not give their kids Kurdish names. A continuing legacy of European imperialism. Americans owe Kurds gratitude for beating ISIS in 2014. Our guest Ka

Critical Race Theory: Scopes Trial Redux?
November 16, 2023

In the Scopes Trial of 1925, William Jennings Bryan spoke against teaching evolution, saying I have all the information I need to live and die by. Todays intense fight against teaching Critical Rac

11/11 Armistice: The Germans Were Ambushed, A Peace That Ended Peace
November 14, 2023

With renewed interest in the first world war, November 11 is celebrated as the end of the war to end all wars. But in reality it was a peace that ended peace. The German negotiators at that famous t

Rabbi in The West Bank Calls for Torat Tzedek, An End to Settler Brutality
November 09, 2023

Violence in the West Bank has ramped up markedly in recent days. Jewish settlers there see the barbaric and evil acts of October 7th as a green light. Theyre not just vigilantes, they are subsidized

The Left Can Win a Moral Revival
November 07, 2023

The corporate powers in the late sixties were seriously freaked out by the powerful momentum of the left. So along came the 1971 Powell Memo, which was a battle plan to retake power. And it worked. On

Powerful Left-Labor Coalition Emerging
November 02, 2023

Used to be labor unions were seen as being limited to white working class men and as such lacked power to make real change. With the wins by the UAW and writers union, writing in the New Republic auth

Horror and Absurdity: Revisiting Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse 5
October 26, 2023

One entire generation held the book and the author in reverence. And with Tom Rostons new book The Writers Crusade and the Many Lives of Slaughterhouse Five a new generation is discovering the uniqu